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The Influence Of Individualistic Ideas On American Mobility, Markus Magiera Oct 2018

The Influence Of Individualistic Ideas On American Mobility, Markus Magiera

English Department: Traveling American Modernism (ENG 366, Fall 2018)

In this paper I showcase the influence of individualistic thinking ranging back as far as Age of Enlightenment on the development of mobility in America since the eighteenth century. My goal is to identify the factors that shaped the evolution of travel. In order to do so I start by analyzing texts from the early nineteenth century, where travel by foot was the common thing. Next I focus on new means of mobility; first the bicycle, and later on the automobile. I aim to convince that modernity's main instigator was the change in thinking brought forth in the Age of …


Travels On The St. Johns River., Thomas Hallock, John Bartram, William Bartram, Richard Franz Jan 2017

Travels On The St. Johns River., Thomas Hallock, John Bartram, William Bartram, Richard Franz

Faculty Books

In 1765 father and son naturalists John and William Bartram explored the St. Johns River Valley in Florida, a newly designated British territory and subtropical wonderland. They collected specimens and recorded extensive observations of the plants, animals, geography, ecology, and native cultures of an essentially uncharted region. The chronicle of their adventures provided the world with an intimate look at La Florida. Travels on the St. Johns River includes writings from the Bartrams' journey in a flat-bottomed boat from St. Augustine to the river's swampy headwaters near Lake Loughman, just west of today's Cape Canaveral. Vivid entries from John's Diary …


Foster's The Coquette: Audiobook, Part 2 (Chapters 8 To 14), Jon Miller Dec 2015

Foster's The Coquette: Audiobook, Part 2 (Chapters 8 To 14), Jon Miller

Jon Miller

Audio file of Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton (1797), chapters 8 to 14. This is the second in a series. The reading runs for about 31 minutes.


Foster's The Coquette: Audiobook, Part 3 (Chapters 15 To 23), Jon Miller Dec 2015

Foster's The Coquette: Audiobook, Part 3 (Chapters 15 To 23), Jon Miller

Jon Miller

A reading of Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton (1797). Part 3: Chapters 15 to 23. 32 minutes.


Foster's The Coquette: Audiobook, Part 1 (Chapters 1 To 7), Jon Miller Dec 2015

Foster's The Coquette: Audiobook, Part 1 (Chapters 1 To 7), Jon Miller

Jon Miller

A reading of chapters 1 through 7 of Hannah Webster Foster's 1797 novel, The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton. The late eighteenth-century English can be difficult to understand on a first reading, and I think it helps to have someone read it to you. For best results, open the book and read along as the audio plays. This file runs about 34 minutes.